At around 08:42 Beijing time today, USDC Treasury minted 50 million new USDC on the Ethereum chain.

Crypto payment platform MoonPay announced that it has obtained a money transmitter license from the Texas Department of Banking. From now on, Texas users can purchase 64 cryptocurrencies through Venmo and PayPal. According to statistics, more than one-fifth of the voting-age population in Texas holds cryptocurrencies.

The suspected Justin Sun address transferred 70,182 ETH ($244.9 million) to HTX 7 hours ago, including 42,905 ETH unstaked from Lido Finance and 27,277 ETH transferred from Etherfi.

As of December 24, Bitcoin has returned 113% in 2024, however, most mining stocks have failed to take advantage of the cryptocurrency's upward momentum and are still in the red at the end of the year. According to data from Hashrate Index and Google Finance, most listed mining companies had a poor year-end performance in 2024, with the highest decline reaching 84%.

Glassnode posted on the X platform: “Solana has maintained positive net capital inflows since early September 2023, with only small outflows during this period. This continued influx of liquidity has helped stimulate Solana’s growth and price increases, reaching a significant peak of $776 million in new capital inflows per day.”

The constitutional complaint filed by Do Kwon, founder of Terraform Labs, in Montenegro has been rejected. The Constitutional Court of Montenegro announced that all judges unanimously rejected Do Kwon's constitutional complaint. This decision means that Do Kwon will be tried in South Korea or the United States, which will be decided by the Minister of Law of Montenegro. Given the previous attitude of the Ministry of Law and other factors, Yonhap News Agency believes that Do Kwon is likely to be extradited to the United States.

Founders Fund, the venture capital firm co-founded by Peter Thiel, is raising about $3 billion for its third growth equity fund. Founders Fund has not yet provided potential investors with an official size target for the new fund but said $3 billion would be a ballpark figure.

Coinbase International’s total trading volume last week exceeded $119 billion, a record high. The total volume for the week was 124% higher than the previous week’s total, while the daily average for the past week was 164% higher than the daily average for the previous week.

Decentralized exchange (DEX) PancakeSwap's total trading volume reached $310 billion in 2024, a year-on-year increase of nearly 179% from $111 billion in 2023. PancakeSwap reported that mainly due to L2 networks Arbitrum and Base, cryptocurrency trading volume on Arbitrum increased by 3,656% year-on-year to $13.2 billion, while cryptocurrency trading volume on Base increased by 3,539% year-on-year to $11.6 billion in 2024. In addition, PancakeSwap's trading volume increased by 179% year-on-year, reflecting positive market sentiment and increased activities in the DeFi and DEX fields.

In response to the problem pointed out by SlowMist founder Yu Xian, the blockchain identity authentication platform Humanity Protocol replied on the X platform, saying that they appreciate the feedback on the problem of plaintext private keys being directly stored in the browser on the test network. They have noticed this problem and will solve it as soon as possible and inform users.

Data from the Bank of Korea showed that as of the end of November, the number of cryptocurrency investors in South Korea reached 15.59 million, an increase of 610,000 from October. This figure accounts for more than 30% of the country's total population, reflecting the increase in market activity after US President-elect Trump pledged to support the cryptocurrency industry. The rise in Bitcoin prices also contributed to the growth of this trend.

At around 06:36 Beijing time today, an address on the Ethereum chain with a balance of 13,145,135 USDT was frozen.

Bitcoin staking protocol Babylon disclosed in its official blog that on December 15, during the third launch of the Babylon Bitcoin Staking Protocol mainnet, an anonymous pledger pledged 10,000 bitcoins worth more than $1 billion through three transactions.

PANews reported on December 25 that the OKX market showed that BTC had just broken through $99,000 and is now trading at $99,005.80 per coin, with a daily increase of 0.71%.

Greeks.live macro researcher Adam pointed out in an article that Europe and the United States entered the Christmas holiday, and traditional markets were closed, but the crypto market driven by Bitcoin showed a significant rise. Due to the poor liquidity during the holiday, the market needs less power to rise and fall. In terms of options, short-term implied volatility continues to decline, and market makers are nearing the end of their positions. It is expected that volatility will be mainly stable before the end of the year. At present, the biggest pain point of BTC is $84,000 and ETH is $3,000, but the biggest pain point of the year may become invalid, which is similar to the situation in previous years.

The opening price of the short position is $3429.45. If the ETH price reaches $4843.9, the position will be forcibly closed.

PANews reported on December 24 that Nick Tomaino, founder of 1confirmation, posted on the X platform that ETH is a native value storage tool for the Internet and has the world's best monetary policy. He pointed out that unlike Bitcoin (BTC), whose supply will reach 21 million in 2140, the supply of ETH will gradually decrease as the use of applications such as DeFi, stablecoins, NFTs, prediction markets, and SocialFi increases.

PANews reported on December 24 that the OKX market showed that ETH had just broken through $3,500 and is now trading at $3,502.27 per coin, with a daily increase of 6.86%.

PANews reported on December 24 that the OKX market showed that BTC had just broken through $98,000 and is now trading at $98,040.10 per coin, with a daily increase of 5.13%.

PANews reported on December 24 that Coinglass data showed that in the past 24 hours, the cryptocurrency market had a total contract liquidation of $246 million, of which $94.5773 million was long and $151 million was short. The total amount of BTC liquidation was $67.9834 million, and the total amount of ETH liquidation was $47.9829 million.